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Which of the following is most likely the reason why Adams dates the beginning of the American Revolution to the 1760s?

• Renewed efforts by Great Britain to consolidate imperial control over the colonies

• The forging of American Indian political alliances with European powers

• Increased involvement of colonial merchants in the Atlantic economy

• The expansion of the colonial population into the interior of the continent

Which of the following most immediately resulted from the Columbian Exchange?

• Expansion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

• Growth of feudalism in Europe

• Decline of Native American populations due to disease

• Rise of mercantilism as an economic system

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

• recreate an Old World feudalistic society in the New World

• create a perfect religious commonwealth as an example to the rest of the world

• create a refuge for political dissidents

• profit economically

Which of the following characterizes the relationship between church and state for the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century?

• The colonial government officially supported religious toleration.

• Colonial officials strictly separated church and state.

• Colonial officials encouraged churches to incorporate Catholic elements of worship.

• Ministers held most elected offices.

• Church membership was required for voting and holding public office.

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT

• create a government that would be satisfactory to both slave and free states

• create a government that would be satisfactory to both large and small states

• create a strong central government that would not threaten the sovereignty of the states

• establish a balance of power between the three branches of the national government

• determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights

Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?

• He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.

• He supported the idea of the president and Congress sharing power and believed in a stringent plan of Reconstruction.

• He believed that both secession and Reconstruction should be dealt with by the Supreme Court

• He slowly moved to a Radical Republican position on Reconstruction and supported increased rights for African Americans.

• He refused to take a position on Reconstruction, prompting Republicans to impeach him for his irresponsibility.

Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?

• passage of the Missouri Compromise

• election of Abraham Lincoln as president

• ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• formation of the Populist Party

The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents

• The conflict between Patriots and Loyalists during the American Revolution

• The persecution of religious dissenters in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

• The signing of the Treaty of Greenville (1794) that ended wars between the United States and Native Americans in the Northwest Territory

The map above shows the United States immediately following the

• passage of the Northwest Ordinance

• negotiation of the Adams-Onis Treaty

• passage of the Missouri Compromise

• settlement of the Mexican War

• passage of the Compromise of 1850

Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

• It recognized the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, but refused on technical grounds to free Scott.

• It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

• It upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

• It upheld the principle of popular sovereignty.

• It freed Scott, but not other slaves in circumstances similar to Scott’s.